Secrets & Lies

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-10-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

France, UK

Runtime:

136 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(26570 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Leigh

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Timothy Spall Phyllis Logan Brenda Blethyn Claire Rushbrook

Writer:

Mike Leigh

Fullplot:

Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.

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